The Ming Tombs
The gate where you enter the 'other world', you have to say here that you only enter to visit, otherwise you can't go back (there's a lot of superstition in the Ming Tombs). The girl with the English flag is our guide Angel.
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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... [read more]
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... [read more] Blog: Great Wall!
Date: July 2nd 2009
Hi! Already a new update. We're still in Beijing but we slightly changed plans; we're going to inner mongolia tonight! We're not sure how many internet cafe's we'll find there, so we thought we'd better write something now... I'll try to keep it a bit shorter this time ;) Monday we didn't do much, as the internet cafe took quite some of our time ;) We just went to a hutong with some little shop ... read more
Date: July 2nd 2009
Hi! Already a new update. We're still in Beijing but we slightly changed plans; we're going to inner mongolia tonight! We're not sure how many internet cafe's we'll find there, so we thought we'd better write something now... I'll try to keep it a bit shorter this time ;) Monday we didn't do much, as the internet cafe took quite some of our time ;) We just went to a hutong with some little shop ... read more
